Careful Words

come (n.)

come (v.)

come (adv.)

come (adj.)

Cut and come again.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): Tales. Tale vii. The Widow's Tale.

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Brook.

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,

And Laughter holding both his sides.

Come and trip it as ye go,

On the light fantastic toe.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 31.

Come as the winds come, when

Forests are rended;

Come as the waves come, when

Navies are stranded.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Pibroch of Donald Dhu.

Come as the winds come, when

Forests are rended;

Come as the waves come, when

Navies are stranded.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Pibroch of Donald Dhu.

Confess yourself to heaven;

Repent what's past; avoid what is to come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Come forth into the light of things,

Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Tables Turned.

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Seasons. Spring. Line 1.

  Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

Old Testament: Job xxxviii. 11.

  Come home to men's business and bosoms.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Dedication to the Essays, Edition 1625.

  There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

  Lady Bab.  Then you have an immense pleasure to come.

James Townley (1715-1778): High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. 1.

All these woes shall serve

For sweet discourses in our time to come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Come in the evening, or come in the morning;

Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning.

Thomas O. Davis (1814-1845): The Welcome.

Come into the garden, Maud,

For the black bat, night, has flown;

Come into the garden, Maud,

I am here at the gate alone.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Maud. Part i. xxii. Stanza 1.

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;

Come like shadows, so depart!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Come live with me, and be my love;

And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and valleys, dales and fields,

Woods or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Brook.

Come o'er the moonlit sea,

The waves are brightly glowing.

Charles Jefferys (1807-1865): The Moonlit Sea.

The baby figure of the giant mass

Of things to come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly

From its firm base as soon as I.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

Past and to come seems best; things present worst.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.

And what is so rare as a day in June?

Then, if ever, come perfect days;

Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,

And over it softly her warm ear lays.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): The Vision of Sir Launfal. Prelude to Part First.

I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart,

I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Come, rest in this Bosom.

Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.

James Thomson (1700-1748): Hymn. Line 118.

Come, thou monarch of the vine,

Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 7.

It is not nor it cannot come to good.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!

Come to the mother's, when she feels

For the first time her first-born's breath!

Come when the blessed seals

That close the pestilence are broke,

And crowded cities wail its stroke!

Come in consumption's ghastly form,

The earthquake shock, the ocean storm!

Come when the heart beats high and warm,

With banquet song, and dance, and wine!

And thou art terrible!—the tear,

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,

And all we know or dream or fear

Of agony are thine.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): Marco Bozzaris.

Come to the sunset tree!

The day is past and gone;

The woodman's axe lies free,

And the reaper's work is done.

John Keble (1792-1866): Tyrolese Evening Song.

That it should come to this!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Come unto these yellow sands,

And then take hands:

Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd

The wild waves whist.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright

On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.

Charles Jefferys (1807-1865): Come, wander with me.

Come what come may,

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

I die,—but first I have possess'd,

And come what may, I have been bless'd.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Giaour. Line 1114.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear;

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act ii. Sc. 2.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

But in battalions.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

Come to the bridal chamber, Death!

Come to the mother's, when she feels

For the first time her first-born's breath!

Come when the blessed seals

That close the pestilence are broke,

And crowded cities wail its stroke!

Come in consumption's ghastly form,

The earthquake shock, the ocean storm!

Come when the heart beats high and warm,

With banquet song, and dance, and wine!

And thou art terrible!—the tear,

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,

And all we know or dream or fear

Of agony are thine.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): Marco Bozzaris.

Come in the evening, or come in the morning;

Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning.

Thomas O. Davis (1814-1845): The Welcome.

Glen.  I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Hot.  Why, so can I, or so can any man;

But will they come when you do call for them?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Whistle, and she'll come to you.

Beaumont And Fletcher: Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4.

Oh whistle, and I 'll come to ye, my lad.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Whistle, and I 'll come to ye.

Come in the evening, or come in the morning;

Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning.

Thomas O. Davis (1814-1845): The Welcome.